Vladimir Tikhonov first large tanker through North East Passage

[Jens Heri]

The tanker and two russian icebreakers are on route Murmansk to Thailand using the Northern searoute.

These past summers the extend of ice round the North Pole has been much less then previous years, making it possible to use the North West and North East passages.

You can follow the ice extend daily her
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html

source nrk.no